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Richard Pousette-Dart
American (1916-1992)
Richard Pousette-Dart - Number 19
NUMBER 19, 1951
oil and metallic paint on linen
91 ½ x 41 ½ inches
biography/chronology
solo & group exhibitions
public collections
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SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Periodicals
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Herald Record, February 23, 1963, p. 9.
_____.“An Exhibit Opens in New York,” The [Suffern, NY] Sunday Independent, April
21, 1963, p. 16.
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_____.“A Portfolio of Recent Paintings,” In New York: The Art World, Arts Magazine,
Yearbook 7, 1964, pp. 64-65.
_____.“The Johnson Collection,” Arts Magazine, April 1965, p. 24.
_____.“Richard Pousette-Dart: Presences,” Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute Bulletin,
December 1969, pp. 1-2.
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Cohlentz, Gaston. “In the Art Galleries,” New York Herald Tribune, March 9, 1947,
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Colby, Joy Hakanson. “DIA Retrospective Gets in Touch with Pousette-Dart’s
Creativity,” Detroit News, February 8, 1991, section C, p. 4.
de Kooning, Elaine. “Reviews and Previews,” ARTnews, March 1949, p. 46.
Devree, Howard. “From a Reviewer’s Notebook,” The New York Times, October 17,
1943, section 2, p. 8X.
_____.“Along Gallery Row,” The New York Times, January 7, 1945, section 2, p. 8X.
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_____.“Diverse New Shows,” The New York Times, March 9, 1947, section 2, p. 7X
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Douglas, Sarah. “What’s On: New York,” The Art Newspaper, September 2003.
Edgar, Natalie. “Reviews and Previews: Pousette-Dart” Artnews, December 1964, p. 15.
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Etra, Jon. “Family Ties,” ARTnews, vol. 90, May 1991, pp. 128–33.
Farber, Manny. “Art,” The Nation, October 13, 1951, pp. 313-314.
Fitzsimmons, James. “Pousette-Dart,” The Art Digest, February 1, 1951, p. 18.
Forgács, Éva. “Richard Pousette-Dart at Tasende,” Art Issues, November/December
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Frankfurter, Alfred. “In Search of Art History at the Carnegie,” ARTnews, December
1961, pp. 28, 49.
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Gibson, Eric. “Saturated with Color: A Primer on an Outsider,” Washington Times,
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_____. “New York: Richard Pousette Dart-Knoedler, Zabriskie,” ARTnews, May 1996, p. 134.
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ARTnews, February 1998, p. 115.
Giuliano, Charles. “Pousette-Dart: Exploring Mystery,” Boston After Dark, January 21-
28, 1970, cover and p. 11.
Glueck, Grace. “Deflecting Henry’s Show,” The New York Times, October 19, 1969,
section 2, p. 28.
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The Nation, May 27, 1944.
_____.“Art Notes,” The Nation, January 20, 1945.
_____.“Review of Problem for Critics,” The Nation, June 9, 1945.
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Henry, Derrick. “One Artist’s Canvas is Another’s Music,” Atlanta Constitution,
January 6, 1993, section B, p. 8.
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_____.“Mixed Pickings from Ten Fat Years,” ARTnews, Summer 1955, pp. 36-39, 77-78.
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1987, pp. 109-16.
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p. 100.
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America, November 1990, pp. 196-97
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1955, pp. 64-68, 120, 122.
Karmel, Pepe. “Art in Review: Richard Pousette-Dart,” The New York Times, January
19, 1996, p. C18.
Kimmelman, Michael. Review of exhibition at ACA Galleries, New York, The New York
Times, November 9, 1990, section C, p. 26.
_____.“Richard Pousette-Dart, 76, Dies; An Early Abstract Expressionist,” The New
York Times, October 27, 1992.
Kramer, Hilton. “The Revenge of the Philistines: Art and Culture, 1972-1984,” New
York: The Free Press, 1985.
_____.“Art: Paintings of Richard Pousette-Dart at the Whitney Museum,” The Nation,
May 18, 1963, pp. 428-29.
_____.“A Clearer View of the Iceberg,” Art in America, February 1964, pp. 121, 123-24.
_____.“A Modish Revision of History,” The New York Times, October 19, 1964, section
2, pp. 29-30.
_____.“Art: Spirit and Substance,” The New York Times, November 18, 1967, p. 31.
_____.“Can We Place Them with Matisse and Brancusi?” The New York Times, June
22, 1969, section 2, p. D31.
_____.“Episodes From the Sixties,” Art in America, January/February 1970, pp. 56-61.
_____.“Pousette-Dart: The Case of the Odd Man Out,” The New York Times, November
17, 1974, Section 2K, p. 37.
_____.“Art: Pousette-Dart Paintings Glow with Color, Light,” The New York Times, April
10, 1976, p. 17.
_____.“Art: An Abstract Study in White,” The New York Times, April 7, 1978, Section C,
p. 18.
_____.“Making Vivid the Spirit of the New York School,” The New York Times, April 16,
1978, section 2, p. 26.
_____.“Art: Pousette-Dart’s Abstract Expressionism,” The New York Times, October 9,
1981, section C, p. 23
_____.“A Year of Treasures, Revisions, and Trends “ The New York Times, December
27, 1981, section 2, p. 27.
_____. “Seesawing Reputations: A Generation of Curators Rewrites the History of
Abstract Expressionism,” Art & Antiques, December 1987, pp. 105-6.
_____.“The Antithesis of Tradition: An Artist without Angst,” The New York Times,
November 8, 1992, section 2, p. 35.
_____. “Don’t Blame Pousette-Dart For Twombly and Ryman,” The New York
Observer, January 22, 1996, pp. 1, 21.
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_____.“Met Finally Recognizes Radiant Pousette-Dart,” The New York Observer,
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1961, pp. 32-35, 56.
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1965, pp. 3-13.
_____.“Richard Pousette-Dart’s Emergence as all Abstract Expressionist,” Arts
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_____.“Richard Pousette-Dart: Toward an Invisible Center,” Artforum, January 1975, pp.
51-53.
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